Isopropyl iodide → HCID 54272250, compound

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Reaction Steps

To sodium hydride (2.84 g, 57% in oil, washed with pentane), 110 ml dry THF and 20 ml HMPT, cooled to 0° and under nitrogen, is added 12.7 g ethyl 4-phenyl-3-butenoate slowly with stirring. Then 6.5 ml of isopropyliodide is added and the reaction mixture is stirred for about 60 hrs. The reaction is worked up by extracting into water/ether mixture. The aqueous phase is extracted with ether. The organic phases are combined, washed with brine, dried over calcium sulfate and rotoevaporated to give ethyl 2-isopropyl-4-phenyl-3-butenoate, which is hydrolyzed (potassium hydroxide, water-methanol) to the acid, 2-isopropyl-4-phenyl-3-butenoic acid. The acid is reacted with m-phenoxybenzyl alcohol following the procedure of Example 4 to yield m-phenoxybenzyl ester of 2-isopropyl-4-phenyl-3-butenoic acid.

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